Vogues first 100 year old model: Bo Gilbert

Harvey Nichols have launched a campaign to celebrate British Vogue’s 100th birthday.

Starring Bo Gilbert, the first 100 year-old model to appear in the magazine, this film goes behind-the-scenes at Bo’s photoshoot with renowned fashion photographer Phil Poynter, which will appear in Vogue’s commemorative June 2016 issue.

The films tells us the average age of a fashion model is 16-25 – lets hope this is the beginning of that changing.

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I’m afraid I agree. She looks lovely but I am thinking of cancelling my sub to Vogue because it is full of teenagers and seems increasingly irrelevant to my 60 year old life. I want to see people like me more often.

It’s remarkable that here we are in the 21st century with all the “women’s lib” and “social revolutions” decades old and yet the fashion industry, supposedly a forward thinking and boundary-pushing Industry, remains resolutely stuck in the past where “models” are concerned. Kate Moss repeatedly defaulted to, pubescent girls thin, droopey and much of a muchness constantly used and swathes of women ignored. I have read Vogue magazine for over 40 years and the latest issue left me cold; I’ve given up on it! No elegance, no style, no imagination that would inspired. However I did forward the video clip of Bo Gilbert to numerous friends!

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